4 Responses to Ouch❢

1. Gary Herstein says:

   February 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm

   As an aside, I had to go to IEP to confirm my understanding, but Royce went so far as to argue that the possibility of error is itself indicative of the necessity of an infinite mind:

   In 1885, he published his first major philosophical work, The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, proposing the idea that in order for our ordinary concepts of truth and error to have meaning, there must be an actual infinite mind, an “Absolute Knower,” who encompasses the totality of actual truths and possible errors.

   (Also, in his later works, Royce is very explicit about his debt to Peirce, especially around the idea of a “community of inquirers,” which became the foundation for Royce’s concept of the “Beloved Community.”)

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   • Jon Awbrey says:

     February 22, 2016 at 3:30 pm

     For my part it all goes back to whether virtue can be taught, the relation between the Infinite and the Finite, Plato’s Meno and Sophist, the Gnostic pleroma and creatura, Leibniz’s pregnant plenum, Peirce’s ultimate community.

     But I do not know if that helps much with the infant’s immediate problem. There I’d have to turn to Freud in his object relations mode.

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     • Gary Herstein says:

       February 22, 2016 at 4:10 pm

       The infant’s problem seems to gravitate toward aloe and unquentine …

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       • Jon Awbrey says:

         February 22, 2016 at 4:32 pm

         ℞ ICE

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